Saturday, November 1, 2014

Documented Life Project...

What started as a small project has captured peoples interest and sky rocketed.

For the last year, many of you have been following a weekly prompt and incorporating it into a Moleskine planner whilst documenting your life.

Everywhere I go on my travels someone has theirs with them and are so excited to show me what they have done.It has been so successful that the team of gorgeousness'sLorraine BellRae MissigmanSandi KeeneRoben-Marie Smithhave decided to do it all again next year, 2015.This time, instead of the Moleskine planner, they have chosen a new journal for everyone to work in….And heres the exciting bit…

Its going to be in my Dylusions large journal…whoop whoop.How frikkin cool is that…??

Fabulous news with a slight drawback :-(..With many of the 10,000 followers wanting to purchase the journal, there might be well be a shortage coming up! If you need to stock up on your journals or need one for the project, then don't leave it till the last minute to do it.UK peeps we have plenty HERE

I have decided to give away a few of the journals in celebration. If you would like to own one leave me a comment, stating why, and I'll pick a few winners. Can you also let me know which country you are commenting from?

The DLP project is free…yes you heard right…it is FREE to join and become part of their ever-growing community.Details HEREIf you want to learn how the girls decorated their individual journals in their own imitable style the have a paid workshop planned which is purely optional.Check it out HERE

I am delighted to have been asked to do a guest spot or two for them, so keep your eyes open for that.I'm going to leave you with a journal page as I haven't posted one in an age.

After a long teaching day, I am heading for my bed, and after 47 already there are only 2 sleeps left before I set off for a week at home, can't wait.Sweet dreams and…Enjoy xx

127 comments:

I'd love to win one of your journals for the project. I have two of yours already that I am working through. One is using only your products and ideas - I took a class of yours and decided to keep it moving. The other is quite the collection of randomly learned techniques and things I'm trying on my own. I'll need a clean slate to join in 2015. I'm in the USA. Ta

I would love one of your journals. I only accidentally heard that you are coming to Salem, Oregon, way after the fact. There was only one opening even though I wanted to take ALL of your classes, especially the all-day journaling class. I'm pretty far down on the waiting list for that class and would love a journal so I can at least watch more YouTube vids and do work on my own. Can't wait for the Technique Tag class!!!

It was an honor to meet you ! Your technique and style brought a smile to my face and you brought a smile to my best friends face also which is hard to do ! It would be "wickedly' AWSOME to win a free journal ! ;) this will be my first project life I can't wait and hope to keep up ! Post is from CT USA

ooh, great news! this sounds fantastic! and yes please, i'd love a chance to win a journal :)

i'm a beginner, and i bought one of these journals when i first started out at the beginning of this summer. i was so excited to try out the deliciously coloured dylusion sprays and yummy stencils etc, but even though i was really careful it must have somehow leaked into the binding(?) so lots and lots of pages fell out, which was a super sad experience for me because i absolutely love everything else about this journal -- especially the size and the gorgeous paper! (it's possible that i got a faulty copy?) not that i mind playing with loose sheets, but honestly it just isn't the same as a journal... a format i absolutely adore. anyway, i'd love to get a chance to try again, using acrylic paints and gel pens this time, and masking tape to protect the binding ;) however, i'm on a really tight budget and also bedbound, which means i can't simply go out and get a new one. so, winning a new journal would obviously mean the world to me. and if it were signed by you, it would only make it all the more precious..! :) <3

Hello sweet lady! I completed every week of the 2014 DLP up until this coming week. It has been a fabulous and rewarding journey and I am so looking forward to using your wonderful large journal for 2015. I already have three of your large journals that I am filling up with your ink sprays and stencils and everything you have taught me thus far. Since Orlando has NO "fun stores" except the box stores I will drive a couple hours to She Scrapbooks in the Villages or Whim So Doodle in St. Pete to get my new journal. I am so excited you will be a guest artist during the 2015 year. I love and miss you. I hope I see you in 2015. Take care my dear friend and safe travels always. Jill

Hello sweet lady! I completed every week of the 2014 DLP up until this coming week. It has been a fabulous and rewarding journey and I am so looking forward to using your wonderful large journal for 2015. I already have three of your large journals that I am filling up with your ink sprays and stencils and everything you have taught me thus far. Since Orlando has NO "fun stores" except the box stores I will drive a couple hours to She Scrapbooks in the Villages or Whim So Doodle in St. Pete to get my new journal. I am so excited you will be a guest artist during the 2015 year. I love and miss you. I hope I see you in 2015. Take care my dear friend and safe travels always. Jill

Can't wait to get started on DPL and was thrilled to hear they chose your large journal...woot woot! I'm going to be participating from sunny Southezen California in the grand USA! Looking forward to your guest appearances too!

Hi Dyan...im in, this year has been so shitty what with the big c at the start of the year and into day 91 waiting for the knee op after falling down the the stairs..i need happy distractions...even worse I'm 50 next year too!..This guy would love to win one of your fab journals ...glad your heading home soon..regards freddy

Dyan I have loved this year's documented life and not missed a week! Yes don't I sound smug..lol! The thing I am most looking forward to about 2015 is looking back at my 2014 journal each week to see what I was up to, how I was feeling and how my art style has changed/developed. Would love to win one of your journals! XXX

I visited the AFTH shop yesterday (there was the link on the Documented LP blog) and couldn't find it, there were only small ones ;) However, I was extremely happy to discover by the way that I can buy Somerset Studio magazines in Europe! (shipping from the US costs almost 3 times as much as the magazine itself!) I don't know the shipping price from AFTH (not stated), but I truly hope it'll be affordable for me... Anyway, I've been journaling in school notebooks, with very thin pages, or on loose pages (I'm not sure if this is the right term, I mean separated pieces of paper) and just recently decided, that the time has come (for a professional one ;)). It means that picking me is a really good idea! :)

I love the dylusions journal. I already have one and love it to bits. It takes any media and is so nice to draw on, spray ink on and paint and anything you can think off the journal just laps it up. I would love to win a second journal as i would love to start with a fresh new journal for DLP 2015. I am from Australia.

Ah bless you Dyan you must be shattered - been following the Documented Life project just not managed to join in this year (picked the wrong journal to begin with), now a Dylusion one makes complete sense!

Wow, great news that your journal will be used for the Documented Life project! I recently started working with your sprays and I love them :) Unfortunately I don't have your journal yet, so it would be wonderful to win one! I am from the Netherlands btw. I hope you have a nice day! Kind regards, Joyce

They are the best journals to use. I've tried loads and end up just using them to draw and cut out as they don't hold ink like yours. YaY!!! You're coming home!!!!Ooo your own bed and a proper cup of tea :) xxx

Awesome news Dyan, i joined in with this years DLP using an ASDA journal which wasn't up to the job! Would love to win one of your large Dylusions Journals, the paper in them is wonderful and perfect for this Project.

Even better news is you will be joining in the fun, enjoyed taking part so far but with you joining in also it takes this project into yeehaw mode. Am looking forward to joining in next year even more now.

Great to see you are having fun on your travels but i think you will enjoy a week or two at home. Take care Dyan, thank you for your generosity:-) xxx

What a great idea DLP 2015I'm just a beginner in artjournaling and i'm following your blog. You do great things in your artwork. Just love it. I love to work with the spray ink from ranger. I do have 3 colours now, but there gonna be more. Now i'm working with moleskine journals, but your journals look way better. So i would love to have one. Hope i'm one of the lucky winners. :)

CONGRATULATIONS Dyan! I have not as yet tried your journal because I need to use up all the ones I have. But hey, there's gotta be a first time for everything and what better way to start a new journal than at the start of a new year, yeah?

What a lovely thing to do.I just gound DLP fot 2015 thru a FB journaling group., and a so excited abou all the wo derful possibilities this brings. Over the years I srarted, like so many others, scrapbooking. Always behind the camera instead of in the picture. I have progressed to art journaling after meeting you earlier this year. At last, I am ready to start including me in the documentation process. Thank you!

Participating in the Documented Life Project was one of the best parts of 2014! In what was a personally challenging year for me, I found the diverse set of prompts challenged me to stretch my artistic wings, all the while taking comfort in the pleasure of expressing myself through art. The project helped me try many new techniques and tools and I'm so proud of the journal I've created. Thank you for offering the opportunity to win one of your journals.

I would LOVE to try one of your journals! I've heard such wonderful things about them but I can't find them in stores near me (I'm from the USA, near Rochester, NY.)

I tried DLP in 2014 with the Moleskine. Hated the Moleskine paper. Switched to a different journal and that didn't work either. I'm excited to try again in 2015 with your fabulous journal as a base. Cheers!

Hi Dyan!!!! I'm Ally from the US =) First I just want to say what an awesome inspiration you are to so, so many of us! Second I would LOVE to win a journal for my first year of DLP <3 Thank you for then chance!

Hi Dyan, I am so excited about DLP 2015. Especially since you and Dina are part of it. I participated in DLP 2014 with my large dylusions journal (amongst others) and am happy they are going to use it too. It's a lovely journal. I live in Suriname (South America) and have to order everything from the US or the Netherlands since there are no artshops here. So I would really love to win a new journal. Have a great day Dyan! <3 and hugs from Melissa.

Very excited about the 2015 DLP project and that you and Dina are participating as well :-) I have 1 large journal that I am using for another class I have been taking on art journaling. Love the format, so now I need to get my hands on another one for this project!

i would love to work in one of your journals in the upcoming 2015 DLP. i have one that i have been working in for the 2014 DLP and love the paper as it takes so many different mediums. Thanks for the opportunity to use another one this year. USA

I'm looking forward to seeing what all the guest artists do this next year in DLP. I would like one of your journals because I'm just plain curious about them. Haven't had the money to get one. I've seen so many artists use them and they seem to be a perfect fit for lots of different media.

I'm all signed up and can't wait!!! Of course, a brand new journal would just be a big plus to begin this journey in 2015. 😉 Enjoy your time at home, Dyan. (I'm in Massachusetts - the VERY windy and rainy state today)

Congrats on being part of DLP2015!! Everyone will love your journal if they haven't used one before... it is the best! Looking forward to the adventure with DLP. :D You are generous to gift away a few journals. Of course I'd love to have another, but really I'll pass my chance to someone who hasn't ever had one of your journals, to spread the joy. Your journal page is FAB!!

Now I get to combine two of my favorites into one!! Your journal, products and style, and the DLP process. Who could ask for more??!! I am from the US, and would love to win a journal!! Can't wait Thor your contribution during a DLP week!!

I look forward to doing next years DLP in one of your journals. To be able to use wet mediums and not worry about seepage (a problem I have had this year with using a Moleskin) is going to be wonderful. I live in the UK

I participated in 2014 and now I will definitely participate in 2014. You are such a logical (yes, I said logical while referring to Dyan Reaveley!) choice as a guest for the group. Your journal is so much easier to work with/from for me!

I would love to win one of your gorgeous journals for the DLP 2015, this year my journal fall apart and tore. So by mid summer I was so upset I never continued. But I have been in and out of the face book page peeping at all the wonderful art everyone is doing. I fully plan on following through in 2015, and your journal would help me do that. I live in BC Canada, way up on the north west coast line.

I am so blessed to be a part of your class this weekend. Since I am the girl who had black paint splattered all over my favorite purple hoodie, maybe you will have some sympathy for a newbie art journalist who is getting ready for a humongous change in her life in 2015. I also want to share one with my best friend and get her hooked so we can start doing this together...so really, now that I am thinking out loud, I would probably give it to her and buy my own.

I'm so excited to start fresh in DLP 2015! I have fallen waaaaay far behind in this year's and promise myself I will have no problem keeping up since it will be in a Dylusions journal! I have one already and just love it. It would be great to win another one so I can use the money saved to purchase more of your yummy inks and maybe even a stencil or two (which I have yet to try). Yee ha from good ol' Texas, USA.

Already have loads of journals waiting to be abused, so had been able to restrain myself from purchasing one of yours, although I kept eyeing them on Amazon. But now...MUST have one since I'm being 'forced' to do something I already wanted to do!! ;-) YEA!!

I would love to win a journal. I'm from California. My reason for wanting to win? Art supplies are super expensive in my town and I'm a single parent with a bad habit of Art Journaling and can use all the help I can get to fill my habit of Art Journaling! :)

Dyan! You are so awesome to be giving away a journal for the DLP! I would love to win a journal because I signed up for the 2014 DLP midway and [shamefully] did none of the prompts! I had the smaller moleskine (bought the wrong one!) and felt hampered by the size so hence, did not feel inspired. When I heard they were switching to your fab journal, I was thrilled! (I have one almost full!) So I would love to win a new one and start 2015 DLP properly!

YOUR journals,by far...are the BEST on the market! I love the papers that are ready to take on any mixed media yumminess I throw on it! ...and ya know, a girl can NEVER have too many journals! Looking forward to another fabulous documented year...and all the fun you and the other artists will have in store for us! Big Hugs from Rehboth Beach, Delaware- USA

I thought & thought about doing DLP in 2014 & decided not to in the end, which I regret now. The fact that it's being done on your large journal next year is hugely tempting to me as I'm dropping hints all over the place about wanting the journal for Christmas. :)

hi dyan, i have had the pleasure of knowing and loving you close up for many years now. and now for you to join in with the amazing ladies from DLP 2015 is just OUTSTANDING. i would love to win a journal from you, i think it would give me that extra inspiration. but even if i dont win a journal what you have to offer us with your talent is PRICELESS. thank you for the chance and cant wait to see you there. xoxox

Hi,Dyan:)!Having one of your awesome journals to work in in India would be awesome:)...we don't get them here yet....and the experience would add to magic of the joy of creating and celebrating art and using awesome art supplies :)Thank you:)!xx

Hugs to you from Texas, USA...LOVE your Dylusions journal...as well as all things Dylusion!! Great surfaces to create!! I've almost filled 2 with the 3rd started so I NEED another journal to play along with the Documented Life Project .

Hi Dyan,How exciting they have chosen your journal! You must be so happy 😃 I have been doing the DLP this year and live it! It's fun to see everyone's posts as well. I am from the USA and I would love to receive your journal in your giveaway. I have been working slowly this year because I have a baby but next year I will have more time to participate. I was looking at your journal on Anazon and drewling over all the cool supplies you have. I love the size and the blank paper. I think it will be fun to create a documented life with it. Unfortunately I don't have the money to buy on Amazon at the moment but before the first of the year I will if I don't win this giveaway. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us and I look forward to your class next year!

Can't WAIT for your guest spot post!!! I have seen you at CHA a couple of times, and your work always blows me away! I played along for the 2014 DLP, and I know next year will be even more fabulous! I don't have your journal yet, but I desperately "need" it...as well as the rest of your products that I don't own yet! Thanks so much for the opportunity to win!

Dyan, you will probably get 10,000 comments here!! the competition to end all competitions - There is not much different can say here to everyone else that comments, but I am so looking forward to the 2015 DLP. Participated in 2014 about 50% and my NY resolution for 2015 is to complete every challenge - looking forward to doing it LARGE in your Dylusions. How exciting :). I'm in beautiful Melbourne, Australia.

Can't figure out if my first comment posted but if it did I forgot to mention I'm from the USA! I would love to win one of your journals Dyan! Looking forward to stretching my art skills in the 2015 DLP!

Dyan, I'm so excited that you will be joining us on the DLP 2015!!! I absolutely love your art and art products!!:) I have yet to try one of your journals and can't wait too:) I'm from NH in the U.S. :) xoxoxo

Here in the USA, I've been working in the moleskine all year with the DLP, and have loved it! But, I was very excited when they announced that we will be using your journal next year. I have two of them, both the large and small, that I have loved creating in. I love the smooth, heavy pages that are perfect for acrylics, sprays, decoupaging, etc. Welcome to the DLP, and thank you for your generous giveaway!

Hello!Today is the day (actually it was 20 minutes ago) that I discovered you and the Dylusions journals! I am super excited! I participated in this year's DLP and have signed up for 2015.Now, imagine my sadness and disappointment to discover that you were in Kansas City this weekend and I could have met you in person. : ( Oh sigh, it wasn't meant to be.On a happier note, I would love to win one of your fabulous journals. I am a newbie in art journaling and I feel that this journal would be a great jumping-off point for me. Thank you! : )- Angela

I would be over the moon , excited to win one of your awesome books . I have been following every link , and learning from your videos , on how to play in our art. Books. So this year I plan to jump on board and play along !!! I'm so excited too see so many awesome artist and products being used this year.so let the fun begin. And I just have too say , I just love your style and your personality is awesome !!!! No matter who wins your art book. Were all winners in this amazing art venture !!!, Delores - USA

So exciting that DLP 2015 is using your journal! Yahoo! I would love to win one of your journals. I feel like I'm in such a good place in my life that it is the perfect time to start participating in DLP. In my opinion your journal is the perfect book for it. Thanks for the inspiration.

Dear Dyan,I am serving "overseas" and on a limited income. This year I began art journaling-doing art for the first time in my life! I would live to be considered to receive your journal, as my husband has said,"no more art supplies" and it would be great to be able to use it for DLP.I love your fun style, and look forward to your teaching sessions.Thanks for your generous offer!Sincerely, Sarah Slovenia, Europe

I have been wanting to join in on all the fun Lifebook fun! I would love to own a Delusion's Journal, as well. Everyone has one except me! Boohoo. I sound like a crying teenager. Lol. But I am speaking the truth ;) Thank you for the chance to win!!USA

I'd love to win of your journals as I just can't afford to buy one as I'm barely making ends meet and I've got three kids to feed. I recycle alot so if I don't win one I'll just make my own as usual, but just for once I'd love to own something brand new and lovely. It would really make me happy...and I could do with some happy right now! Andrea (Rochdale, UK and feeling a bit miserable)

I would love to win a Dylusions Journal and am excited that documented life will be in a bigger format this year. Its the first year long project that I managed to stick to and am really looking forward to what 2015 holds. I am in the UK

Oh, thank you for a chance to win one of your journals! I have never worked in one, but I have heard they are wonderful! I am looking forward to 2015 being a very creative year. I am excited to try some of the prompts and projects in DPL 2015!

Hi Dy - I dont do any on line classes as I never seem to have the time to do them, but this one Im going to give a go and use your journal for it. Looking forward to seeing you back on home soil!! hungs

Fantastic! I loved starting my DLP project this year but didn't keep up with it - maybe the larger format in your fab journal will keep me going! Congrats on the pick of your album as the Book of the Year!

Hi Dyan I'm not lucky enough to live close to your shop so can't attend your workshops or so far haven't managed to get to one of your workshop preview days so I can book a weekend workshop with you cos I'm always working :-( would love the chance to have one of your journals to participate in the DLP. It will give me something to craft for even when I'm busy at work. I craft much better to deadlines that just taking my time lol. Thank for the chance to get one. And one day I will get to come along to your weekend workshop who knows I might stand a better chance booking one in America when your next there lol take good care of you

My friend has just introduced me to art journalling but I have yet to give it a go. I have purchased a number or products but my excuse is I don't have a journal so I would LOVE to win this, my first, then no excuses. Australia

In 2014 i did the project in a moleskine notebook, with very thin pages. I would love to try your journal for the project in 2015. I'm living in the netherlands and would love to win a journal of you so i can try something that you gays love in the usa, uk ect.

This is fabulous news Dyan. it will be great to work in a trusted journal that I know will be able to stand up to all kinds of materials and techniques I would like to use. The quality speaks for itself with your journal and being a larger size is good.Very generous of you to offer some giveaways and I will be very happy to use one of yours for the DLP catherine x(UK)

Just discovered this project and joined the group ready to start, one of your big journals would be amazing to win for this project, the one I have is very nearly full. I am in the UK . Safe travels home. X

I've only just started journalling this year so would love to sign up for the documented life Project to learn from the real pros ;)Would love to win one of your journals that your are so generously giving away because I have no doubt they are made up of quality paper that will withstand a variety of inky paintyness.I'm commenting from the UK :)

I think this is just the thing to get me into journaling. I've tried to get going in the past, but never stuck to it. Having a community of folks doing it to join would be a fabulous motivator. Using your journal and inky things will be the icing on top! (USA)

ohhhhh I would love to win one of your amazing journals! How exciting! :) I didn't get to follow every prompt last year in DLP but plan on it this year and would love to get my journal all prepped and ready to go :) I am in the USA thank you SO MUCH for the chance at winning :)

OH MY GOODNESS!!!...So that is where all the journals are...I am commenting from south of Boston Massachusetts and am proud to be Boston Strong...Would love to win one of your journals and enjoy another year with the DLP

I am brand new to this and I have watched your Videos. Love you. I tried purchasing a journal from Amazon but they do not have any. I am on a type of what I suppose is a wait list. I live in USA. I have purchased some of your spray inks and templates (60% off at Joanne's Whoop Whoop) and excited to get started playing this weekend so I will be ready in 2015. Thanks for all you do!! You of course at the BEST!